My favorite twelve-year-old and I spent a few days in NYC. We did the touristy things like the 80th and 86th floor of the Empire State Building. We did that one in the morning and again at night. The lights were fabulous. We visited the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We took a ferry out to the Statue of Liberty.
We took a candlelight tour of the Catacombs of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and we visited the 911 Memorial and Museum. I was actually very surprised at how much she enjoyed the Memorial. I didn't expect it to be of interest to her and I was wrong. She took it all in in her usual empathic self.
We did an immense amount of walking averaging over twenty thousand steps each day. Our feet hurt and we were tired by the time we got back home. We got caught in an east coast rainstorm that drenched us and we survived the day it was 95 degrees. It was such an adventure and I am blessed to have taken it with her. We created some memories for her to take with her her whole life.
No comments:
Post a Comment